Weeding device.



B. F. PAXTON. WEBDING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED IBB. 15, 190B.

Patented Jan. 5,1909.

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BENJAMIN F. PAXTON, OF VALENTINE, NEBRASKA.

WEEDING DEVICE.

i No. 909,018.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ian. 5, 1909.

Application filed February 15, 1908. Serial No. 416,141.

T o all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. PAXToN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valentine, in the county of Cherry and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVeeding Devices, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to devices for destroying weeds, and for like pur oses, and which may also be em loyed to a imited extent for loosening soil) around the roots of plants, and has for its object to produce a simply constructed devicearranged in oppositely disposed pairs for attachment to the lands of the operator.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in a pair of bars arranged right and left and rovided with means for connection detachably with the hands of the operator, one pair being employed on each hand, the connection with the hands preferably being made with the thumbs and palms thereof.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings employed for illustrating the invention is shown the referred embodiment thereof, and in the rawings thus employed, Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations from the outsideof the tWo parts of the improved device. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views from the inside. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a plan view ofthe portion of the device shown in Fig. 2 with the knife member and thumb socket in vertical position.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention is shown two bars 10-11 with the lower portions knife edged, as at 12--13 and with the terminals of the knife edged portions bent laterally in opposite directions, as at 14 and 15. Pivoted at 16 to the bar 10 is a thumb socket 17, and pivoted at 18 to the bar 11 is a correspondlngly shaped thumb socket 19.

In using the device the operator inserts his thumbs respectively in the sockets 17-19 with the rear ends of the bars 10-11 laced opposite the` palms of the hands, the gers of the hands if required being clasped around the bars rearwardly of the sockets 17-18, leaving the knife edges and laterally bent ortions of the bars projecting beyond the gers of the hands, and in position to be The bar 11 is extended beyond the socket' 19 and secured by a rivet 26 to a plate 27, the latter in turn riveted or otherwise secured to a band 28 similar to the band 22 and provided with straps 29-30 and buckles 31-32 to enable the band to be attached around the hand of the operator.

The cutting portions 12-13-14-15 being arranged right and left, the thumb of one hand will be inserted in the socket 17 and the band 22 attached to the palm ofthe same hand, while the thumb of the other d hand will be inserted in the socket 19 and the palm of the same hand embraced by the band 28, so that the improved device as a whole will be ada ted respectively to the right and left han s of the operator.

The sockets 17-19 being swiveled to the bars 10-11, and the bands 22--28 being also swiveled to the bars, the device possesses a certain degree of Iiexibility and yieldableness to enable the bars tov adapt themselves to the movements of the wrists and hands of the operator, so that the implement may be more readily employed in. its work.

The device is very simple in construction, and can be adapted to hands of various sizes. The bars 10-11 Will be of tempered steel to enable them to withstand the severe strains to which they will be subjected, while the sockets 17 may be of sheet metal, some of the various forms of vulcanite manufactured, or constructed from any suitable material.

From the foregoing it will be understood that either tool may be used alone or that both tools may be used together.

What is claimed is 1. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at one end, and a thumb engaging element connected to the bar.

2. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having a cutting edge at one end, and a thumb engaging element movably connected to the b ar.

3. An implement of the class describedl end anda socket for the thumb of the .operator connected to the bar.

6. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at one end and a socket for the thumb of lthe operator sWiveled to the bar.

7. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at one end, a hand engaging device at the other end oi the bar, and a thumb engagingdevice con nected tothe bar intermediate its ends.

8. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at yone end, a hand engaging device at the ctherffend of the bar, and .a thumb engaging device swiveled tothe bar intermediate its ends.

9. An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at one end, a hand engaging device iSWSivld aft the other end of the bar, and a thumb engaging device connected t9 the bar intermediate the ends thereof.

1Q. ,An implement of the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at one end, a hand embracing element, means Nfor swiveling the bar at the other end to said hand engaging element, and a thumb engaging device connected to the bar intermediate its ends.

11 An implement .of the class described comprising a lbar havingfcutting edges at l:one end, a hand .engaging device, a plate connected to said `han-,d engaging device, means for sWiveling said plate .to the bar at its other end, and a thumb engaging device connected to the bar intermediate its ends.

l2. An implement ,of `the class described comprising a bar having cutting edges at .one end, a `,hand embracing device, a plate connected to said hand lembracingdevice, means 'for swiveling said plate to said bar ,at its other end, and a thumb receiving socket swiveled to said bar intermediate its ends.

In .testimony .whereof I -aiiix my signature, in presenOe-nf two witnesses- ANDREW YB. 'Bourssgnn EVANGELINE .GAsfnrLn 

